HPN-SSH 18.9.0

[rapier1]

This release brings HPN-SSH up to OpenSSH 10.3. It also includes minor bug fixes and improvements.

Of note are two under the hood changes. The first reduce unnecessary sigprocmask calls in clientloop.c. On our tests this made small but real improvement in CPU utilization. This may help with throughput in some scenarios with the main thread is CPU bound. The second reduce unnecessary memsets in channel_handle_rfd(). Because of default configuration options and code structure memset was being called when not required. This also reduces CPU utilization and may improve throughput in CPU bound bulk data transfers.

Also, I want to apologize for how long it's taken to push this release out. Lots of things came up outside of this work and we kept having to push back the release date. Binary packages will be available shortly.

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This discussion was created from the release HPN-SSH 18.9.0.

[rapier1]

The dynamic window release will be available shortly as well.